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Headup Games Rolls Out Three Game Demos

by Rainier on March 26, 2020 @ 10:46 a.m. PDT

If you’re looking for something fun to play this weekend while you’re stuck in home isolation limbo, publisher Headup is happy to help!

Head over to Steam now to check out the following games for free:

Pumpkin Jack: Sometimes, it’s good to be bad, and in Pumpkin Jack, you embody Jack, the mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an epic 3D platforming adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil defeat Good!

Fans of games like Medievil and Jak & Daxter will enjoy engaging in an epic battle of evil against good as you jump, dodge, and carve your way through challenging enemies and daunting puzzles.

The peaceful Boredom Kingdom, with its happy citizens, monotonous calm... and adorable little bunnies, has sent the Devil himself into a flying rage! With dreams of turmoil, torture, and bloodshed on his mind, he unleashed the dreadful Curse of the Eternal Night upon the land. Not in love with the idea of a change in their peaceful lifestyle, the humans summon their savior — a mighty wizard with the power to put an end to the evil curse. In order to stop these party crashers from ruining his fun, the Devil summons the spirit of Jack, the Pumpkin Lord, to fight against the wizard’s army of beasts and destroy the killjoy wizard!

You, as Jack, will be tearing your way through fright-filled levels as you punish those who dared defy your master!

Travel through epic and dramatic settings, with each level having its own eerie atmosphere. Using a vibrant palette and high quality lighting effects, Pumpkin Jack invents its own unique cartoon universe inspired by the classic PS2 graphic style.

You will have to master the arts of dodging, timing and movement to vanquish Jack's foes. During the dynamic real time battles, choose which weapon you want to use and strike at the critical moment! Solve puzzles that focus on physics, gravity and reflection. Inhabit a pumpkin head and burn books, hammer some moles, create a path for magic spheres… But also more!

Key Features:

  • Colorful Cartoon Setting: Travel through lurid landscapes in levels featuring alluring atmospheres, each crafted with vibrant color palettes, and high-quality lighting effects
  • Fight For Your Life: With challenging beasts lurking around every corner, players must master the art of combo attacks, dodging, and timing to survive dynamic real-time battles! Players must unlock weapons and choose wisely in order to strike down all who oppose them!
  • Don’t Lose Your Head: Solve puzzles that focus on physics, gravity, and reflection as Jack, or ditch the skinsuit and just use your flaming head to burn books, hammer some moles, create paths for magic spheres, and more as each level introduces new and exciting challenges
  • Find Friends to Fight at Your Side: Helpful companions are there to assist Jack in his journey, including a haughty hooty owl to guide him along, and a snarky crow, itching to assist with long-range attacks

Pumpkin Jack will be available for Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC in Q4 2020.

Slime-san: It was a normal day like every other, then a giant worm ate poor little Slime-san, and now he has to make his way out of the worm’s digestive tract by slipping, sliding and jumping his way around in this hyper-cute platformer! Slime-san is guaranteed to put you in a good mood!

The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia: Don’t let your typing skills get rusty during these trying times! The Textorcist is a mix of bullet hell shooter and typing game...yeah, you read that right! On top of that, you’re a freelance exorcist! You know you wanna try this one!  

How many things are you able to do at once? Test your multi-tasking skills in The Textorcist where you "only" have to do two things: type and dodge.

Sounds easy enough in theory but proves much harder in practice. This game will put you to the limits of your cognitive and body coordination capacities.

You're Ray Bibbia, private exorcist and certified badass. Your mission is to rid the world of every evil spirit and send them back to hell. You banish them by typing out the holy passages from your book, down to the last letter. A city in decay, streets filled with thugs and only one man to stop it all. Groundbreaking gameplay, exorcists, demons, the Pope and tons of hardcore action-filled boss battles for the first type em up game ever realized.

Any spelling mistake you make will set you back, but to make things really interesting you also have to dodge your enemies' relentless bullet barrage at the same time. Welcome to (Bullet) Hell!

But obviously this is still not enough of a challenge for you, which is why later on in the game the texts will be in Latin, as is proper for such a holy man of the church as Ray Bibbia.

Get ready for an electrifying mix between a bullet game and a typing hell!

Features

  • Intense storytelling
  • Tons of bullets
  • Lots of typing
  • 10 Boss fights
  • Challenging twisted typing mechanics for every boss
  • Type even to open a door
  • Type on a Holyvetti computer
  • Show it off with online leaderboards
  • Play with the keyboard for a typing experience or with a gamepad for a rhythm experience
  • Original Soundtrack composed by GosT
  • Some more bullets
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